Benson Science Hall

Benson Science Hall is an university building in Davidson, Tennessee. Benson Science Hall is situated nearby to the university building Kirkland Hall, as well as near Jean and Alexander Heard Library.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Jean and Alexander Heard Library and Parthenon.

Jean and Alexander Heard Library

Library

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The Jean and Alexander Heard Library system is made up of several campus libraries at Vanderbilt University. These include Eskind Biomedical Library, Central Library, Divinity Library, Alyne Queener Massey Law Library, Walker Management Library, Anne Potter… Jean and Alexander Heard Library is situated 740 feet southeast of Benson Science Hall.

Parthenon

Historic building

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The Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was designed by architect William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Parthenon is situated 3,500 feet west of Benson Science Hall.

Kirkland Hall

University building

Kirkland Hall, designed by William Crawford Smith, was built in 1874 as the first teaching building at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Located on the then 74-acre main campus of Vanderbilt, it burned down in 1905 due to a large fire and was rebuilt in 1906. Kirkland Hall is situated 460 feet northwest of Benson Science Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Gulch and Nashville.

The Gulch

Neighborhood

The Gulch is a neighborhood on the south fringe of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, near Interstate 40, Interstate 65 and Interstate 24. It is known to be a trendy and hip neighborhood, and a popular destination for locals, college students, and visitors.

Nashville

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Nashville is the capital of the American state of Tennessee. With 716,000 residents in 2022, it is the state's largest city. Nashville is sometimes called the "Country Music Capital of the World" or more often "Music City, USA"; however, Nashville has done much to escape its country music image and become a regional center of culture and commerce.

Benson Science Hall

Type: University building
Categories: building and education
Location: Davidson, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.14712° or 36° 8′ 50″ north

Longitude

-86.80207° or 86° 48′ 7″ west

Elevation

554 feet (169 metres)

Open location code

868M45WX+R5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 544413708

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

GeoNames ID

7194000

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